Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the persistence of all living things. ... Even when their utility both to the public and their own members has disappeared, they still survive." Tammany still bivouacs some of its cohorts in state departments; it still elects Assemblymen, State Senators, and Congressmen; it still makes judges. It will not obey any orders to disband. It will not be destroyed until it is beaten by another Democratic organization that combines the patronage, prestige, and mass support of the New Deal with the morale and organizational strength formerly possessed by Charlie Murphy's Tammany...
...flag. He said the flag is an idol. If I salute the flag I cannot go to Heaven." To George Leoles' home went the principal, there learned he was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935). When he refused to let his daughter obey the Atlanta Board of Education's flag salute requirement, Dorothy was dismissed from school...
...immediate legal weapon to force rayon producers to obey the rules,* but the National Retail Dry Goods Association was last week urging all its members to do so. The N.R.D.G.A. regards fibre identification as one more inevitable manifestation of the consumer research and protection movement that has been spreading through the U. S. for the past decade. But many a rayon man, forced into expensive changes of his production and advertising systems, thinks differently, and various rayon groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel...
...Prince of Wales in 1924. He announced that he had telephoned the Duke of Windsor to offer to resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles. Said he the next afternoon: "Up to 1 o'clock I was very gay. Since then something has happened. . . ." Whether or not the something was a refusal by the State Department to accord royal status to the Duchess of Windsor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux would...
...they wish to preach Americanism, it is time that they cleaned house among their members, demonstrated the principles of good citizenship at their annual conventions, and behaved less like a pack of cheap, booze-fighting roughnecks at their annual meetings. More than that, if they cannot and will not obey the laws of the country, and of common decency, how long are we going to let the regular law enforcement agencies sit back and condone their bawdy behavior...